Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/08/25/08:36:33
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Owen Rees wrote:
> --On 24 August 2006 10:39 -0700 Eric Hanchrow wrote:
>
> > Igor> FWIW, my main gripe with Console is that it doesn't
> > Igor> understand line wrapping, so cutting and pasting a line that
> > Igor> wraps multiple times results in multiple lines.
> >
> > Yup. And as far as I know, there's no way to tell the console "please
> > save the accumulated scrollback into a file". But then I don't think
> > rxvt can do that either :-)
>
> You can select all the available scrolled text with both Console and
> rxvt (Console scrolls when you drag off the top/bottom and extends the
> selection, rxvt extends the selection with a right mouse click so you
> can select, scroll, right click).
In Console, you can extend the selection with Shift-left click.
> Once you have copied it all, "cat >somefile" then paste, CR ^D will get
> it into a file. Perhaps not quite as simple as having a 'save' option,
> but not too hard to do.
Even simpler: "cat /dev/clipboard > somefile" (no need to paste). This
works immediately with Console and rxvt in W11 mode, but may not work in X
until you switch to and from a Windows app (because X has to copy the X
selection to clipboard).
> If you are using rxvt, long lines that wrapped on display will be long
> lines in the file, With Console, there will be line breaks wherever it
> wrapped.
That's exactly the gripe I mentioned above.
> In the context of copying and pasting in a window, I find rxvt far
> superior to Console because of the way it handles long lines (as well
> copying/pasting the way X does without requiring that X be running).
Right. It also keeps the colors better, whereas Console sometimes fails
to redraw correctly under heavy CPU loads.
Igor
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